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The RAH Band – In 7 Words Interview…

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Q1. You’re?

In my studio making music I like and hoping somebody else might

Q2. When?

As a mere child in 1956 I heard the music and saw the light!

Q3. Why?

Back then I used to listen on my shortwave radio to Willis Conover’s Jazz Hour on The Voice of America while in the Merchant Navy as a cadet, teaching myself guitar and realizing I’d rather be a jazzer than drown in the South China sea

Q4. Watching?

Favourite films – Stanley Kubric’s “2001” & “Dr. Strangelove”

Q5. Hearing?

The dawn chorus

Q6. Playing?

Stravinsky, Duke Dumont, Tchaikovsky, London Electricity, Tony Bennett & Bill Evans, J.S. Bach, Jim Hall, the House Sound of Chicago, Joe Jackson, etc,etc…

Q7. Loving?

LIFE !!

The smell of summer is in the air… Perfumed Garden is back. The RAH Band

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We at Atjazz Record Company are once again very pleased to have slapped our palms on a real gem here in the jazz funk classic “Perfumed Garden” by The RAH Band, Richard Anthony Hewson’s project formed back in 1977. After his previous collaboration with Martin Atjazz on 2010’s “Messages From The Stars”, Richard has graciously allowed this wonderful boogie cut into the ARCo. catalogue. Good news for you fans!

https://soundcloud.com/atjazz/sets/the-rah-band-perfumed-garden

The RAH Band’s Back2Bass remix certainly delivers bass in spades, which when added to an updated track with the original sugary vocal, presents a wholly 21st century re-imagining by the creator himself.

Then our very own Atjazz steps up and delivers an unexpected and thoroughly enjoyable Brazilian tinged element to take the original track in a different direction, and analogue all the way to boot. The remix retains all the elements of the original but lifts us up through the clouds and into a blissful dream of classy modern soul. As a special treat the instrumental version of this smooth, uplifting dub is also included.

And of course we couldn’t release these remixes without including the original version to remind us all that great music transcends time. This is truly bliss.

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The RAH Band

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Hewson founded The RAH Band – of which he was the sole member and which took its name from his initials – in 1977 – to release an instrumental called “The Crunch”. The piece climbed to number 6 in the UK Singles Chart.^[4] Hewson played all the musical instruments himself. The arrangement involved the use of no synthesisers, only conventional guitar and keyboards with pedal effects. A number of jazz funk releases followed. The second big hit single for the RAH Band was in 1985, when the soul ballad “Clouds Across the Moon“, also reached number 6 in the UK chart.^[4] Vocals were provided by his wife Liz.^[2]

In July 2007, Hewson released a remixed “Clouds Across the Moon ’07“, now featuring vocalist Emma Charles.^[5]

The RAH band’s releases were issued under a variety of record labels, including Good Earth Records, DJM, KR Records, TMT Records and RCA.^[4]

https://soundcloud.com/atjazz/sets/the-rah-band-perfumed-garden